{"id":15448,"date":"2018-06-26T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15448"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:40","slug":"mod-firefighters-social-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15448","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No social value&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has called on the government to withdraw its decision to award the contract to privatise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence workers, to troubled outsourcing company Capita, following the announcement that all future outsourcing contracts should be assessed on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098social value\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week (June 18) it was announced that the government had awarded the MoD firefighters contract to Capita, on a 12 year contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (June 25)\u00c2\u00a0cabinet officer minister David Lidington announced that in the light of Carillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collapse early this year, it would amend the Social Value Act to require all central government contracts to \u00e2\u20ac\u015bexplicitly evaluate social value where appropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new pledge is going to have any value whatsoever then it must immediately reconsider its plans to privatise the MoD firefighters,&#8221; said Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is absolutely no social value in awarding this contract to Capita, a company which has a risk factor of 10:10 due to its dire financial situation,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The government now has yet another reason to cancel the awarding of this contract and maintain the service in-house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMoD firefighters and defence workers are on the frontline of protecting the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military bases both in the UK and abroad. They are required to protect military equipment in war zones when required.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf social value means anything then dedicated defence workers should not have their lives and jobs privatised, with their futures dependent on the decisions of Capita which is solely focused on maximising its own profits.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has called on the government to withdraw its decision to award the contract to privatise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence workers, to troubled outsourcing company Capita, following the announcement that all future outsourcing contracts should be assessed on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098social value\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. &nbsp; Last week (June 18) it was announced that the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[562,855,144],"wps_subtitle":"Government must re-consider Capita MoD firefighters contract ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26109,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/26109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}